Daddy's Home sees The Other Guys co-stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg team up once more, this to play step-father and dad to the same kids.

The new movie lands in cinemas on Boxing Day, but is it worth a watch?

Here is everything you need to know about Daddy's Home (12A).

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What is it about?

Life is great for Brad (Will Ferrell): he is married to sex bomb Sarah (Linda Cardellini) and has two beautiful step-children Dylan (Owen Vaccaro) and Megan (Scarlett Estevez) from her first marriage.

Out of the blue, Sarah's first husband Dusty Mayron (Mark Wahlberg) makes contact and persuades Brad to let him visit the children.

She urges extreme caution, describing her ex as what might happen if "Jesse James and Mick Jagger had a baby", but Brad is unconcerned, believing that it's important for Dylan and Megan to have their biological father in their life, even if he is a scoundrel.

Brad's patience is tested to breaking point as Dusty swaggers into town, intent on breaking up the happy home and reclaiming his position as alpha male.

Is it worth a watch?

3/5

Daddy's Home is a morass of half-baked ideas and sketches, which fail to gel as a satisfying battle of the hirsute sexes.

Only when the rivalry between the central characters descends into a literal showdown of their respective manhoods - off-camera thankfully - does the film turn promise into genuine giggles.

Ferrell goofs ad nauseum while his deadpan co-star repeatedly removes his shirt to poke fun at his musclebound screen image.

A colourful supporting performance from American stand-up Hannibal Buress as a handyman, who inexplicably takes up residence on the family sofa and referees arguments between the two men, is a pleasing diversion.